Telangana Police seize 800 kg ganja worth Rs 2 crore in Hyderabad; 2 arrested
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Telangana Police arrested a lorry driver and a cleaner for transporting 800 kg of ganja, worth around Rs 2 crore, from Andhra Pradesh to Uttar Pradesh. Stephen Ravindra, Cyberabad Police Commissioner, has said that three other accused are absconding.
Cyberabad Police in Telangana seized 800 kgs of ganja, worth around Rs 2 crore, on Sunday, May 8 and arrested two people. The ganja was being smuggled from Andhra Pradesh to Uttar Pradesh via Telangana, reported The News Minute.
Sleuths of Special Operations Team (SOT), Shamshabad Zone, along with Shamshabad Police, based on a tip-off, nabbed two drug peddlers and seized 800 kg of ganja being transported by a truck.
The two people who have been arrested are Khushi Mohammed, driver of the truck, and Sonu Singh, the cleaner. Stephen Ravindra, Cyberabad Police Commissioner, said that both were from Uttar Pradesh and that three other accused are absconding.
The Commissioner said that Sikinder, a resident of Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh, was to receive the contraband. “He, along with Somu alias Bhagawan, a resident of Malkangiri of Odisha who is the supplier and Bijender Singh of Mathura district, who owns the truck are absconding,” said the Commissioner.
Police said that Mohammad had been purchasing ganja from local cultivators in Visakhapatnam and Odisha and supplying it to Sikinder, who further sold it to customers in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.
According to the report by The News Minute, Sikinder had given an order for 800 kg of dry ganja a week ago. Mohammad, the truck driver who was arrested, had procured the required quantity from his suppliers.
The driver and the cleaner, on Friday evening ,May 6, started a cottonseed-loaded lorry from Vijayawada to Rajahmundry. Police said that upon reaching Rajahmundry, the driver contacted the owner of the truck.
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